My attention has been drawn to this level, in which moves have been reduced now to 26. To my calculations this leaves any player one move short at best, regardless of what boosters they might play, making the level mathematically impossible to pass without paying gold bars.
Regardless of the strategy: There are 8 gummies on the starting board and one gummi drops per move. There are 26 moves but the first gummi drops with your first move, so even if I play just concentrating to drop the dragon with each move, all I ever get down is 33 dragons by the point I have one move left to play. Even if I played a party popper on my last move or used the best possible strategy plus a "lucky board" I will be left on gummi and one move short.
This level needs 27 moves to be possible to beat. I have played this level repeatedly and always am one move short, meaning on my final move I am two dragons short, so even if the last dragon comes down and drops straight through on my final move I cannot pass this in 26 moves. Am I missing something? @MannyFae
